Derek Winnert

Driftwood **** (1947, Natalie Wood, Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Greenwood, Jerome Cowan, H B Warner, Margaret Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 12,101

The nine-year-old Natalie Wood gives a super show of winning acting in this thoroughly enjoyable homespun drama.  Producer-director Allan Dwan’s prestige 1947 drama Driftwood stars Ruth Warrick, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Charlotte Greenwood, and Natalie […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

Thunderbolt *** (1929, George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall, Eugenie Besserer) – Classic Movie Review 12,100

Director Josef Von Sternberg’s 1929 film Thunderbolt [At the Gates of Death] is a tough, glum gangster picture, with the cops rounding up mobster Thunderbolt Jim Lang (George Bancroft, who was Oscar nominated for Best Actor). […]

May, 06 · in Reviews

Underworld ***** (1927, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 12,099

Director Josef von Sternberg’s influential 1927 American silent crime thriller film Underworld [Paying the Penalty] is an impressively fast and furious tale of mobsters during Prohibition. It is one of the earliest gangster movies, and […]

May, 06

The Dressmaker **** (1988, Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks, Tim Ransom, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 12,098

Stand by for acting fireworks! Director Jim O’Brien’s 1988 British drama film The Dressmaker is set in England during the Second World War, and stars Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks, Tim Ransom, and Pete […]

May, 05

The Woman One Longs For [Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt] *** (1929, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning) – Classic Movie Review 12,097

Director Curtis Bernhardt’s visually dynamic and emotionally dark 1929 German silent melodrama film The Woman One Longs For [Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt] stars Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, and […]

May, 04

Bernardine ** (1957, Pat Boone, Terry Moore, Janet Gaynor, Dean Jagger, Dick Sargent, James Drury) – Classic Movie Review 12,096

Director Henry Levin’s 1957 Bernardine stars Pat Boone in his film début in this dim and distant teen comedy about the pains and passions of young lovers, especially Sanford Wilson (Dick Sargent)’s for telephone gal […]

May, 03

King of the Khyber Rifles *** (1953, Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie) – Classic Movie Review 12,095

The attractive and popular 1953 adventure film King of the Khyber Rifles stars Tyrone Power and Terry Moore. It was one of the first shot in Technicolor and CinemaScope. Director Henry King’s attractive and popular […]

May, 02

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